What does a picture sound like?

 During these months when I have often doubted the point of any artistic effort, I was invited to participate in the Vancouver New Music Society's One-Page Graphic Score project, an opportunity for a synesthetic experience about which I was completely ignorant until the first Zoom workshop when Giorgio Magnanensi introduced we eight "composers" to the tradition of graphic scoring and some of its most brilliant practitioners.
What a lift! What a pleasure to collaborate!
The result, after several days of thinking, trying (how does a writer who can't draw make a graphic image?), trying some more--the process possibly more exciting than the result-- is Currents of Our Imaginary Ocean.

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